My friend had a heart stress test last Monday. They injected the radioactive dye or whatever. Couldn’t find anything wrong with her heart.
Then on Thursday she went on a bus trip to Windsor, Canada. On the way back the bus was pulled over at the border because she was radioactive! They asked at the front of the bus if anyone had had a test done recently. She raised her hand. Sure enough the Geiger counter thing went crazy on her. She had to get out of the bus and they took a copy of her passport, etc.
When she got back on the bus everyone clapped for her and one man said, “You are one hot mama!!”
:eek:
Some women just have that certain glow about them.
Then, they are de-contaminated. 
Just make sure she doesn’t get angry. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.
A few years back, I was an actor in a pirate show (imagine!) that was being revived for one day at a festival of sorts. That same day I had to have a similar radioactive treatment. I was told by the radiologist that my sweat would be minorly radioactive that day, and I shouldn’t initiate skin-to-skin contact with other people.
I got to the show and simply told them that my sweat was radioactive, and I had to avoid skin-to-skin contact. I got some -really- odd looks, and the show was officially dubbed, “The radioactive pirate show”!
There’s a little piece about this in the March 2005 Consumer Reports. Here are there figures on how long a patient stays radioactive.
PET scan—less than 24 hours.
Bone and Thyroid scans—3 days.
Cardiac exams with thallium—Up to 30 days.
Iodine therapy (for thyroid cancer and overactive thyroid—Up to 95 days.
When I was doing my masters degree a couple of my friends did their research projects over in America. They were obviously not as carefull with the radioactive sources they were using as they should of been and managed to set off the nuclear bomb detector at the airport on their way home.
This would have been about two weeks after 9/11 and one of the guys looks somewhat middle-eastern in complexion.
They got to have a nice long chat with some FBI agents. Apparently it made the news over here.